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Gore would NOT have disbanded an effective counterterrorism effort. Gore would have retained it, funded it and staffed it.

Gore would NOT have allowed the State Dept. to prevent John O'Neill from resuming his investigation in Yemen, nor would a Gore State Dept have wanted to.

Gore would NOT have allowed the Dept of Justice to quelch FISA requests, in fact I dare say that a Gore D of J would have continued issuing them as they saw fit just like Reno under Clinton.

A Gore admin would NEVER had blown off the Phoenix memo.

Agent Rowley would have gotten the FISA warrant she requested.

The links from the Moussaoui investigation to Atta would have been discovered, the links to the Phoenix memo subjects would have been discovered, a frantic phone poll of flight schools undertaken, a roundup would ensue and it is likely 9/11 would not only be greatly curtailed if not outright prevented, but the prinicple members would be under arrest and under interrogation.

The response would have been focused and extremely effective. OBL would not have been allowed to slip away at Tora Bora.

Gee, what a better world it might have been.